Osvaldo Romberg

Osvaldo Romberg was born in Buenos Aires and trained as a painter and architect. He left Argentina at the start of the Dirty War, when his teaching at the University of Tucaman was interrupted. Over five decades and on five continents, Romberg has produced a consistently goading body of work that tackles questions of analysis, interpretation and representation of art and art history. His own history of translocation and his firm commitment to family and teaching are mirrored by a practice forever playing with the basics of life, sex and death, and its more complex sensibilities, language and mythology. As director of Bezalel Academy, he influenced an entire generation of Israeli artists. He is senior curator at the Slought Foundation in Philadelphia and founder of The Well in Beer-Sheva, Israel. His work is in many major museum collections around the world.